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introduction <br />Team |Ada Moreno Gomez <br />Instructor | Fernando Burga <br />Nick Kieser <br />Lead |Chris Anderson <br />Victoria Dan <br />Cultivating vibrant and resilient streets in the City of Ramsey <br />Tree inventories are used to assess and manage forest and community trees. As a tool for Urban Forest <br />Why a tree <br />manage public trees. Beyond the aesthetic appeal trees offer, they provide a multitude of ecosystem services to <br />values and lowering energy costs, to beautifying neighbourhoods and improving overall wellbeing. In addition <br />inventory? <br />to providing the location of trees that need removal, maintenance or pruning, they are able to determine the <br />overall health of public trees. They can be used for management and policy recommendations, to quantify <br />community forest. <br />Happy People <br />Added Property ValueEnergy SavingsCleaner AirImproved Drainage <br />Trees improve the Trees improve air quality Trees reduce stormwater The ecosystem <br />value of homes and neighborhoods and by absorbing and storing runoff by absorbing the services trees provide <br />the aesthetic appeal homes by reducing CO2 while releasing water down its trunk improve the health and <br />of a neighbourhood. In electricity costs. During oxygen back into the and into the earth below. wellbeing of humans. <br />addition to providing hot summer months atmosphere. They clean They act as natural The U.S. Forest Service <br />shade and privacy, a well their shade can reduce the air by absorbing calculates that trees <br />maintained landscape air conditioning use and odor and pollutants the water and preventing are saving more than <br />add curb appeal and during the winter they stormwater from 850 human lives a year <br />increases the value the provide wind barriers to particles. carrying pollutants into and preventing 670,000 <br />property.decrease the need for natural waterways like incidences of acute <br />heating. rivers and lakes. respiratory symptoms. <br />• Provide the City of Ramsey with the information and resources necessary to make better budgetary and <br />Project <br />management decisions for their upcoming Comprehensive Plan. <br />• Conduct an inventory of a corridor within the COR. <br />Objectives <br />• Collect DBH, Overall Health, and Space Analysis information for each street tree. <br /> <br />